2023 Kobayashi Syrah, Washington, USA Birdhorse The 2024 Santa Ynez Valley

The 2024 Santa Ynez Valley Syrah was harvested across several dates in late September and

organically grown Nerello Mascalese and Grenache grapes were hand-harvested from the 75-80 year-old bush vines

3 day maceration with one punchdown per day

Aged in tank and part in 2000 Liter Rousseau foudre

• Goldridge sandy loam with steaks of gravelly

2023 Kobayashi Syrah, Washington, USA Birdhorse The 2024 Santa Ynez Valley97% Syrah, 3% Viognier from WeatherEye Vineyard, located at the top of Red Mountain in eastern Yakima Valley. The Rhone varieties Travis and Mario source from WeatherEye are ungrafted, single stake trained, and planted at high density on rocky, fractured basalt soils. The wine was whole cluster fermented with ambient yeasts, and matured for 22 months in French oak (25% new) before bottling, unfined and unfiltered.